Many thanks gentlemen. I'm too tired tonight, but I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow when I'm off for the weekend. Can't actually wait to have a go now. Though I know my rustiness will have me dying silly deaths.

quadfather wrote:
I have one over the course of countless characters. It just doesn't drop for me. I get millions of the shields though which Dr mech struggles getting. I think we're both cursed in our individual ways

I think everyone has one particular drop weapon that they suffer the Quaddy Curse with, for you the BSS, for me the BShield, others Channeler's trident.

Heck when starting my Boneshield run I managed to get one in the 5th clearout of the Catacombs wheel skeletons yet some people almost never see one.

quadfather wrote:
I have one over the course of countless characters. It just doesn't drop for me. I get millions of the shields though which Dr mech struggles getting. I think we're both cursed in our individual ways

I think everyone has one particular drop weapon that they suffer the Quaddy Curse with, for you the BSS, for me the BShield, others Channeler's trident.

Heck when starting my Boneshield run I managed to get one in the 5th clearout of the Catacombs wheel skeletons yet some people almost never see one.

Sorry man but you're the biggest and most well known sufferer of it, you're like Patient Zero for the Weapon curse, hence it shall forever be known as the Quadfather Curse.

Architect_z wrote:
I really wanna try the trident out. It's got to be more powerful than the moonlight butterfly.

I use pole weapons alot for PvP, and it scales B with intel, C with dex, and E with strength.

If anyone on here has a character that can give me a channelers trident, i'd love to trade.

(PS3 - SL100)

It's an OK weapon, that is pretty much it sadly, it's main distinction are the two special R2 attacks, the singlehanded one is pretty nifty and can catch people offguard in PvP due to having a multi-hit component to it, so if they screw up a parry it can hurt. Of course the two handed R2 is the infamous happy dance which buffs allied phantoms for a short while.

So I beat the first boss with axe, turns out he was not that hard at all. Two more noob's question to help me decide on further action regarding this game, please?
1) Is there no map/automap?
2) Is there a leveling system in place that would be comprehensible to a player of standard RPGs?

One piece of advice for new players is the significance of endurance, it is very important as it dictates so much. As for classic rpg stuff, there are core stats that get upgraded automatically with every level, while really the rpg stuff is primarily so that you get to use certain weapons and their damage scales with certain stats. These stas can be seen when you choose your weapons.

Yeah for a newbie I'd recommend levelling your combat stat, endurance and vitality, only raising the other combat stat (aka strength or dexterity) to meet the requirements to wield the weapon of your choice.

What kind of guy are you going to be a strength person (usually focuses on high endurance, vitality and strength, wears heavy armour and wields a bigass weapon which hits really hard but has slow swings) or a dexterity person (usually focus less on vitality, tend to wear lighter armours, weapon doesn't hit very hard but hits fast)?

Of course you can mix these things up a bit, be a heavy armour wearing dex character or a light armour wearing strength character etc.

Weapons can be roughly broken down into three selections, Strength, Dexterity, Quality. Quality is a harder one since it has lower scaling in Strength or Dex than a specialised weapon BUT it scales with both (usually a c rating in both dex and strength). Quality builds are far more stats intensive than a specialist weapon and usually reserved for more experienced players.

For your first playthrough I recommend picking a purely strength or dex character. Good Dex weapons that you can get early on (without sequence breaking) are the Balder Side Sword (which will require farming for) and the Uchigatana (requires killing the Undead merchant...perhaps not the best idea but it is a good dex weapon).

quadfather wrote:
I have one over the course of countless characters. It just doesn't drop for me. I get millions of the shields though which Dr mech struggles getting. I think we're both cursed in our individual ways

I think everyone has one particular drop weapon that they suffer the Quaddy Curse with, for you the BSS, for me the BShield, others Channeler's trident.

Heck when starting my Boneshield run I managed to get one in the 5th clearout of the Catacombs wheel skeletons yet some people almost never see one.

Aside from Titanite Slabs, I've not had a problem with DkS's drop rates. But then I've only really played it rolling with whatever the games gives me.

Borderlands 2 however can go suck Ceaseless's dick. The drop rates there make DkS's doling out of the BSS look generous. And that game seems balanced to assume you have the elite drops, whereas in DkS you have a lot more freedom. You don't need any weapon or armour piece in DkS to survive.